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Media Relations

External News Coverage

In an Associated Press story, Luis Ostrosky, M.D., explained how antiviral drugs can affect flu patients differently. The story was picked up by 56 outlets including ABC News online and the Houston Chronicle.

The generous $25 million gift made recently by Jane and Robert Cizik to the School of Nursing and the $25 million gift by Fayez Sarofim to UTHealth in 2006 were included in a Houston Chronicle story about a donation to Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center.

Feb. 3 was the birthday of the first American woman to earn a medical degree. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, M.D., marked this milestone on FOX 26 News by telling viewers about the many career opportunities for women in health care.

KPRC-TV Channel 2 health reporter Haley Hernandez went behind the scenes earlier this month at the first bionic eye implantation surgery in Houston, performed by Amir Mohsenin, M.D., Ph.D., and Garvin Davis, M.D., M.P.H. Hernandez will also do a follow up story once the device is activated in February.

Is it possible to rupture your throat by holding back a sneeze? Zi Yang Jiang, M.D., was quoted in an Associated Press story showing that it can. The article was picked up by nearly 90 media outlets including ABC News.

Ophthalmologists Amir Mohsenin, M.D., Ph.D., and Garvin Davis, M.D., M.P.H., performed the first "bionic eye" implant in Houston last week to help a woman suffering from vision loss due to retinitis pigmentosa. TMC News was in the operating room at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center for the procedure and will be back for follow-up coverage next month when her implant gets activated, which will allow her to see shapes and distinguish light from dark.

Jair Soares, M.D., Ph.D., was on Houston Matters, the noontime talk show of Houston Public Media's KUHF Radio, to discuss the UTHealth Continuum of Care Campus for Behavioral Health, which will become the largest academic behavioral health institution in the country when it's complete.